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You have amazing talents and unique gifts to give to the world.No one else can make your special offer. These are thethings you can do that no oneelse is capable of doing quitethe way you can do them. Weall have a purpose, a reason for living, breathing and existing.The most important thing wecan do in life is to understand what that purpose is and how

we can use it to benefit humanity. We owe it to theUniverse, ourselves, our family,others, the future and your legacy. Become significant –think big and serve big.

My friend, Tom Harken wasborn with both polio and

tuberculosis. Tom spent the first six years of his life in an ironlung. Everyone was afraid of tuberculosis – they used to treat it like AIDS, so no one would touch him. After he recovered Tom started to attend school.

The first day he went to school the teacher told him to go to theboard and spell “cat”. He wrotek-a-t.

The teachers told him – in front of the entire class – Tom would never become successful. Tomdropped out of school,humiliated and chagrined. Tomdecided to prove them wrong.

When he became old enoughhe went out and started sellingvacuums. Tom sold 17 a day.Tom memorized all of theinformation each customer gaveto him – because he never learned to read.

Tom was fortunate enough to

find a wonderful woman – MissMelba, as he affectionately callsher – and they got married. Tomnever told anyone he wasilliterate until, at age 55, heannounced it, with tears in hiseyes to an astonished audiencethat was astounded, while being

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DECIDE WHAT YOU

WANT TO DO

b y M a r k V i c t o r H a n s e n Mark Victor Hansen

The Ambassador of

Possibilities

Mark Victor Hansen is the

co-creator of the wildly successful Chicken Soup

for the Soul® series, and

the co-author of a new book,

The One Minute Millionaire.

For more than 25 years he

has influenced society's top

leaders, and the general

public, on a global scale,

speaking over 50 times a

year. He is also an active

entrepreneur, philanthropist

and humanitarian. Mark Victor Hansen is an

enthusiastic crusader of

what’s possible and is driven

to make the world a better

place.

Mark Victor Hansen & Associates, Inc.

P.O. Box 7665

Newport Beach, CA 92658

Toll Free: (800) 433-2314

Direct: (949) 764-2640

Fax: (949) 722-6912

www.markvictorhansen.com




honored at the Horatio Alger Awards. Upon hearing hisconfession, his sons rushed up to the stage, told him they loved him anyway and would

help him. They didn’t know, it was Tom and Miss Melba’ssecret.

Within one year he had learned how to read. Tomcrusades with me now toeradicate the slavery called “illiteracy”. For a heartfelt,

eye opener, please read Tom’s book called TheMillionaire’s Secret.

You see, anything is possible. Just like Tom, theonly thing standing in theway of your success is you –your beliefs about what’s

possible, your attitudetowards yourself, your desireto achieve what you really want. You are the only barrier that is keeping your dreams at bay. Expand your mind

about what’spossible

Our minds determine our success or failure. Your mindis your ultimate strength andweakness. Everything beginsand ends with your thinking.

I came up with six ways todevelop mental muscles.When practiced they can giveyou the power to accomplishyour goals. Practice takesdiscipline, but everything

worth having does takediscipline. And we’re talkingabout your amazing your mindhere. The tool that can helpyou to achieve everything youwant to do in life. Your mindis precious. Develop it.Because in the end, folks, if you don’t use it you lose it. Inthe One Minute Millionaire,we teach that with the

intangible assets of your mind –desire, ambition, imaginationand commitment – you obtainthe tangible results calledfinancial freedom.

Six ways to

develop your

mental muscles

2. Read, read,

read

Read something besidesmagazines and the dailynewspaper. They’re mostlyfilled with negative images

and information that creep intoyour brain mind continuumand fester negatively. Read books that motivate andinspire you. Do a search of motivational/inspirationalauthors on Amazon.com or inyour local bookstore, or readthe 100 recommended bookslisted on my website, and start

reading. Read in the morning, before you begin your day,and at night, before you go tosleep. These are the key timesto fill your brain with goodthoughts and ideas. Only 15

minutes a day adds up to oneworking month per year invested in self-improvement,which pays the highest ROI – Return On Investment.

And read quickly andthoroughly. Train yourself toread at least one book per week. This keeps your brain

cells tingling and raring to goat all times. Take notes,underline, highlight, circle andwrite in the margins you bought – pull out a return onyour book investment. I wanta payback of thousands tomillions for each book I read,and I average over one per day.

2. Mastermind

Share your mind withsomeone, or a group, who aremoving in the same positivedirection as you are. Two or more minds concentrating onthe same goal is anextraordinarily powerful force.

When one person thinks of anidea, another person canexpand that idea. Then thenext person can expand thatidea. Keep plussing it.

Once a common idea has been established,masterminding is the way to bring it to fruition lightningfast. There isn’t a person on

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this planet who has achieved phenomenal success withoutmasterminding. Please watchmy video Mastermind Your Way To Millions. Call myoffice at 800-433-2314.

3. Seek out A

mentor

Dr. Buckminster Fuller wasmy first major mentor. Istudied how he lived and whathe studied, I met who he met

and kept it in my Rolodex, andit completely changed my lifefor the better. I recommendyou get mentors in each areaof your life for your entire life.Keep having your mentorschallenge you.

Decide on a group of peopleyou admire most, whether youknow them personally or not?From that list, figure out whoyou’d most like to emulate.Then study them. Researchand buy any kind of information you can find onthem.

If they offer seminars, attendthem.

If they’ve written books, read

them.If they’ve got tapes, listen tothem. (Authors want me tohelp them with their books. Iwon’t until they digest myMega Book tapes and absorbChicken Soup for the Writer’sSoul .)

Just a few I’d recommend are:Brian Tracy, Robert G. Allen,Dr. Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfiled and Og Mandino.These are successful people(who were “mentees” under

other amazing thinkers) whohave taken all of the scientificand spiritual laws of theUniverse and created philosophies and skills bywhich you can also become phenomenally successful.

Be open to learning all youcan from those who have

already done the work. Theyare here and their purpose inlife is to help you discover what your purpose is. Don’t be embarrassed or allow your ego to take control of your mind. We’re all here to learn.Seek out a mentor andsubmerge yourself in studying.

4. Listen to CDs

and cassettes

The late Earl Nightingale, oneof the most amazing thinkersof our time, had this to say onthe subject:

“Tape listening is the mostimportant advance in

technology since the inventionof the printing press.”

Earl was the Socrates of thelast century and co-created theworld’s largest audio companyThe Nightingale ConantCorporation.

This is one of the mostimportant habits you cancreate for yourself.Continuously listen tomotivational audio CDs and

cassettes. As a matter of fact,start waking up an hour earlier every morning and devotingthat time to listening toinspirational CDs andcassettes. Listen to them untilyou can practically repeatthem verbatim. This processwill recondition your mind tothink only of abundance and positivity. I listen daily as I

exercise. It takes the boredomout of repetitious workouts. Ilearn and earn a healthy bodyand mind.

5. Attend seminars

To reinforce a positive way of life, sign up for and attend

motivational seminars. Thereyou will meet inspirational people (and possiblemastermind members) andlearn new ways of achievingyour goals. You can search outseminars via the internet,newspapers , the LearningAnnex, or local colleges anduniversities. Go back to your

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Our inner image of ourselves and

what we want toaccomplish in lifemakes us become

what we weremeant to be.




list of mentors and seek outtheir websites. Find out their speaking schedule and attendwhatever seminars are closestto where you live. Seeingthese teachers face-to-face

will help you stay focused onyour goals and create a permanent positive mindset.My friend, Doug Wead, theworld’s best storyteller says:“Leaders are born atseminars.”

6. Turn off the

television

On average, the television set inan American home is on over 7.2hours a day. Just like any badhabit, it needs to be broken. Youmay not think anything aboutleaving the television on whileyou’re doing chores around thehouse or playing with your kids.But the television is filled withenergy that is put out into the

room. It becomes its own entity.

I’m not saying throw the TV inthe trash. There’s a lot of goodprogramming out there.Unfortunately, quality televisionis something you have to seek out. I’m just saying that youshould try cutting back your television viewing one hour every day at first – missing anhour a day won’t hurt you. Andyou can use that time to read a

book, listen to a motivationaltape, walk your dog or spendtime with your family. If youturn it on, it owns you, because87% of your mind is visuallyoriented. Give yourself a no TVhour a day and you’ll have 365hours extra per year or twomonths of new freedom.

That’s it! Just six

easy steps.

These six steps will help you

to re-energize your spiritual batteries and clear the haze outof your mind to help motivateyou to decide what you reallywant to do.

Change your

attitude – Change

your results

Our inner image of ourselvesand what we want toaccomplish in life makes us become what we were meant

to be. We have each createdthe lives we are living nowthrough our beliefs we haveestablished within ourselves.Belief systems based on lack and limitation reproducethemselves physically into our lives.

Think of unlimited prosperity – the true reality – and you’ll

experience unlimited prosperity – ultimately andinevitably, though notinstantaneously.

Think of lack and

limitation and

you’ll experience

lack and

limitation.

Limits are things we imposeon ourselves, or allow to beimposed upon us. The bottomline is that our success or failure begins and ends withour attitudes about ourselvesand success. What we believedetermines our results Whatwe concentrate on comes back to us – multiplied 100 times.Our beliefs in the possibility

or impossibility of anysituation determine theoutcome of that situation. If we don’t believe in the possibility of success, it’s not possible. Access vast successwith self-chosen new processes

How do we replace our entire

negative belief systems with anew, prosperity-focused belief system? It’s just like anythingelse – start at the beginning.

1. Write down you’re your beliefs are.

2. Then begin by askingyourself questions like: Do Ideserve success and prosperity? What would

Our mindsdetermine our

success or failure. Your mind is your ultimate strengthand weakness.

Everything beginsand ends with your

thinking.

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happen if I achieved success?Am I good enough for theman/woman in my life/that Iwant in my life? Would mysuccess take success awayfrom those around me, or

would it increase everyoneelse’s? Do I deserve to behappy? Are the people Isurround myself with positiveor negative influences in mylife? Why do I associate with people who bring me down?

3. The answers to thesequestions will create other questions. For example, if yousurround yourself with

negative people in your life…why do you do this? Is it because you feel that you’renot worthy of positive peoplein your life? If so, that is alimiting belief that needs to bereplaced with a prosperous belief. You don’t have roomfor negative people anymore.

One-by-one, eliminate

each and every negative

belief. They are like

weeds that need to be

plucked out and

discarded. Replace each

with a new, positive

belief. Working off of the

example above, instead

of concentrating on your

belief that you’re not

worthy of positive people

in your life, replace thatold belief with “ I am

worthy of abundance

and prosperity, and only

attract positive,

encourageing, helpful,

supportive people.”

You’ll be surprised at

how quickly those “can’t

do” people will change

their negative tunes or

drop out of your life

completely. Do this with

all of your old beliefs and

watch as prosperity

manifests itself into yourlife. It takes 21 days to

totally eliminate a bad

habit and incorporate a

positive habit as a new

belief. But what’s 21

days when the result will

be having everything

you’ve ever wanted?

Think big and prosperous andyou’ll get big, prosperousresults. Think small andlacking and you’ll achieve justthat. The choice is yours.

Decide what you

want to do

Ross Percy – when he wasfive years old he desperatelywanted a bicycle. No onewould buy or let him have a bike. No matter what he triedto do or how he tried to earnmoney for that bike, the bikewas never his.

Percy grew up and he createdmany successful businesses, becoming a multi-millionairein the process. As an example,Percy created Husky™garbage bags - that sell two

million a day at Wal-Mart.

So, just a few years ago, he brought together 1,200 poor kids just before Christmas.Percy did a little pep rally. Hetold them they could be, have,and do anything they wouldwork for, and that he was proof. He told them that allthey need is the desire,motivation and work at it, andthey could be successful intheir lives.

Percy asked: “How many of you want a new bicycle?” Of course, they all raised their hands. Gleefully, he walked toone side of the room and pulled back a giant curtain thathad been placed there. Behindthat curtain were 1,200 brand-new, shiny bicycles for thekids. Percy cried. The kidscried. Everyone who saw it onTV cried. Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey calledPercy and said: “That’s thesweetest, most loving andgenerous gift I’ve ever seengiven, Percy. Thank you!”

This ingenious man knewwhat he wanted, went for itand got it. He was focused.

That’s what I want you to be – focused on exactly what youwant. How do you do this?Make a lifetime goal list. If you don’t know how, consider

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Deciding what you

want to do with your life is relatively easy –

keeping a positivemindset and staying

with the plan of actiontakes discipline.




listening to my tapes called:Living Your Dreams.

The best way to goabout creating

your goal list

become a member of my freeGoal Rush Challenge on mywebsite.

You’ll be part of a vast groupof individuals who learn how

to set goals in every facet of life for immediate andamazing improvement. Go to

http://www.markvictorhanse

n.com/goal_mining.php?beta where you can: sign up for

my free weekly support and

advice column, Rich Results, which guides you through thegoal-achievement process;

read about how to dreamreally big for your life;

create your 101 Goals list;send your goals to us so thatwe can check in on you, helpkeep you inspired and returnthis same list in exactly oneyear; and keep yourself accountable.

Anything is

possible

YOU are the key to having

everything you’ve ever dreamed about.

1. Exercise your mentalmuscles daily to ensuresuccess.

2. Develop a mindset focusedon abundance and possibilityto guarantee prosperity. Andcreate a balanced goal list that

motivates you to take massiveaction to achieve your dreams.

Deciding what you want to dowith your life is relativelyeasy – keeping a positivemindset and staying with the plan of action takes discipline.Having a strong mind, a positive attitude and a list of goals will enable you toembrace the power you hold

over your own destiny.

Decide What You Want To Do by tapping thepower that lies within you! Go to my website:

www.markvictorhansen.com to learn HOW totake immediate action checking into myproduct selection for inexpensive, ready-to-ship best sellers I’ve mentioned here: Living Your Dreams and Future Diary.

Goal Mine Your Way to Riches FREE !


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Mark Victor Hansen with

Armitage, Inc.

©2002 Mark Victor Hansen

America's Ambassador of

Possibility

Mark Victor Hansen & Associates, Inc.

P.O. Box 7665

Newport Beach, CA 92658

Toll Free: (800) 433-2314

Direct: (949) 764-2640

Fax: (949) 722-6912


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